Numbers to celebrate - or fight - on rights

9:50 PM,
Jan. 24, 2014

Amber Duke

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Amber Duke
| Special to The Courier-Journal

We are bombarded with numbers each day - statistics, poll results, percentages, lists - all designed to inform or sway opinion. There is one set of numbers every Kentuckian should take note of that are at the top of our agenda at the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky: 41, 25, 3, 8, 57, 132, 163, 180 and 184.

? The number 41 is how many years it's been since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. While some have declared it a "day of mourning," we and other advocates for reproductive rights, pause each year to mark this important milestone in our country's history.